PeonForHer
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I did quite a lot on Jung a long while ago, some on the first wave of psychoanalysts generally and a bit on Melanie Klein. But I can't say psychology's my department. I picked up enough, shall we say, for my own purposes at the time. I certainly got far enough to accept that femininity isn't the sole province of women nor masculinity the sole province of men, though. A friend of mine quipped, recently, "If I could contact my feminine side, I'd shag it". I thought, 'Well, that's exactly what a man does when he has a wank'. He gets an external stimulus, connects it to a bunch of internal psychic impulses - and then gets energetic with his preferred hand. The essential point for me is that the erotic aspect of a man's feminine side is a mishmash of what's 'out there', in the shape of real-life women (and what he knows of them), and a bundle of other things deriving from his own drives and impulses - many of which will be deep, dark and quite irrational. The upshot of that view is that there can't be any easy correlation between, say, the way a male crossdresser looks and acts and the way real women look and act. I'd be very guarded about making social or political comments about crossdressers' supposed underlying attitudes as a result.
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